Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
| 2 | I feel really angry I mean I 'm you might say because of my job that I I ought to be law abiding but I am a law abiding person and i like to think that I would go along with all all the laws because they are they are brought in for the benefit of all . |
| 3 | All … all that I 'm saying is that I would like my job and what I do ideally to be like that . |
| 4 | A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway . |
| 5 | There 's a friend of my wife and I she 's , what age is she now ? |
| 6 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 7 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 8 | I know she must have loved my father and he her . " |
| 9 | We would not object to the guide my Lord but what we would object to do n't object to the guide my Lord but what we do object to is is what this er solicitor would have done in relation to it |
| 10 | We would not object to the guide my Lord but what we would object to do n't object to the guide my Lord but what we do object to is is what this er solicitor would have done in relation to it |
| 11 | I was once going to go on a trip , my mate and I we go a trip to er a train cruise down from er down through Italy and of course |
| 12 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 13 | I 've never heard so much rubbish in my life and what I 'm gon na try and do is speak to the policy of Percent for Art . |
| 14 | I 'd like to give you this which spells out clearly my status and what I can do for you , it simply states that I work for |
| 15 | I would say , ‘ 74D in for refreshments ’ — recorded in a book and in that half hour , I had to make my tea , eat my sandwiches , wash my cup , put on my coat or whatever I was wearing — cape if it was raining — and be out for that half hour . |
| 16 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 17 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 18 | Erm because when I was a little girl my brother and I we used to flowers because my mother sold flowers and we would have to deliver them . |
| 19 | In other words you essentially had the choice on the spot of saying , ‘ Yes , I certainly did it , and here 's my fiver or whatever it is , ’ or ‘ No I do n't agree with you and I would like to go through the proper judicial procedures . ’ |
| 20 | I certainly felt more empathy for my mother and what she had been through . |
| 21 | treating their skin and their hair and they they 're on show , they 've got ta be |
| 22 | So we have lost all hope of communication with them , and thus any prospect of learning from their experience and what they have to say . |
| 23 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 24 | Swiftly , now , before the deep-freezers , the dehydrators and the emulsifiers take the syllabub away from us and return it transformed and forever despoiled , let us discover how it was made in its heyday and what we can do to recapture something of its pristine charm . |
| 25 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 26 | I shall also attempt with Dorothy Heathcote , as I have with the other pioneers , to point to innovations or assumptions which are implicit in her work and which she herself may not have articulated . |
| 27 | Their plan was a simple one : pay the imprisoned debtors ' debts , plus the fees demanded for their clearance and what they owed the keeper for lodgings and the rest , and they could be released . |
| 28 | Asked how he would tackle a photographic assignment based on the theme ‘ Positivity ’ for the Grolsch Showcase Competition , Dermot O'Shea replies : ‘ I would have to think very carefully about the word , its meaning and what it suggests to me . |
| 29 | To an amazing — even an alarming — extent , Karen Parsons was totally straightforward about what she wanted to do with her body and what she liked having done to it . |
| 30 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |